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[quote=Anonymous]Impossible question, OP. No club is perfect. Every club has critics, including Arlington and Bethesda -- haha, we know so many at Arlington. In my experience, a lot of it has to do with expectations. I have had three boys in travel soccer and the highest level of dissatisfaction is always in U9 and U10 because often the kids and the parents don't know what they are getting into. It's too serious, it's not serious enough, there are too many practices, there aren't enough practices, the coach is too strict, the coach doesn't teach them the right things... and lots of kids don't stick with it. By the time they are older, people should know what travel soccer means but the  expectations  mismatch can become very personal. A kid is not as focused or as fast as his equally skilled friends and doesn't make the higher team...

My kids have played with two different clubs and in my experience, there have been pluses and minuses to each one. Just like in school, your child's experience will be more affected by the particular peers and coach than by the club-wide practices and decisions.[/quote]

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